Monday, 26 August 2013

I love opening emails from our gorgeous ladies on our DT Team, and tonight it was a great suprise to see three gorgeous outcomes.

First share is from Narelle is is back with us and on fire

"I wanted to use the tray as a way of displaying a favourite photo of my
children, and so I approached it as if I was creating a layout but with lots and
lots of dimension! I painted the Molossi MDF tray first using Black
Derivan Paint, (the tray is easy to paint as it comes apart in 5 pieces!).
Once dry, I put my base papers down using Xpress-it- high tack tape and
then reassemble the tray. I used a little bit of to make sure it all
holds together nice and tight.

To create the layers and dimension in my display I used lots of X-press it
High Tack Foam mounting tape, Helmar Liquid
Scrap Dots and Crafty Koala 3D foam squares. I finished the embellishments with Black Sticky Bling Diamentes and Zebra
Flowers."

Be sure to view more of Narelles work at

http://www.scrapperazzi.blogspot.com.au/

Second share is from the talented Gail show casing some more chippie in a heart felt card

Here is a card made using the Chipboard layered
hearts

I embossed the chipboard with a swirl design embossing folder
then painted the outer and inside heart metallic black. The middle heart I
painted metallic white and attached Molossi pearls

I used Echo Park Just Married papers

Last but never least Cathi is sharing tonight as well

I went
a little wild with chipboard and I have used plenty lol in this layout!! I count
6 pieces: 3 churches, 2 doves and a title!! I had a lot of fun making this.

I
used the same treatment on all the chipboard for this wedding themed layout: I
painted them all in acrylic white paint and inked them with Spiced Marmalade and
Victorian Velvet distress inks. I used the Joining Together title, two Doves, and the Churches.

I layered the three churches for a bit of dimension, you can see a close up of
them here.

Friday, 23 August 2013

We are so pleased to showcase some amazing work from Narelle, after health issues it was such a pleasure to see Narelle back crafting, it was mixed emotions when we received the email and here at Molossi we are so grateful Narelle is well.

"I painted the word with metallic paint first and then
added several coats of Derivan glitter paint to give it a real Christmas glitz
and to tie in with the gorgeous Manor House glitter flowers. Once it was all
dry I removed some of the flowers from their stems and adhered them using Helmar
450 glue.

The "Merry Christmas" word can be free-standing, or by adding
some picture hooks and ribbon at the back it can be hung, as I have done. I
also decided to glue some wooden pegs on the back of the word so that I can clip
Christmas cards to it, giving it a practical use as a Christmas Card display.
You could also clip lengths of ribbon from the pegs and then pin the cars to
the ribbon, giving even more hanging space to display your cards!"

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Morning, we have some lovely card shares from Jo today, using our chipboard pieces; This is what Jo emailed through

When I received my August chipboard pack from Molossi I was
excited to see a gorgeous range of intricate cut chipboard borders inside –
although I’m a scrapbooker first and a cardmaker 2nd – I immediately
had card plans for these borders.

I had just received an order from a local scrapbook store
here in Brisbane, Arnolds Scrapbooking,who had the good folk from Heartfelt Creations out here from the USA for
the June Scrapbook Expo, demonstrating their beautiful range of stamps with
matching dies and I was eager to add these products all together J

Here are the first two cards I created.

I love the dimension and the design of the chipboard borders
and think they finished both these cards off just perfectly.For the blue Feel Better card I simply
coloured the chipboard border with a blue marker from the American Crafts
Chromatix range and added some pearls.For the Just Because pink card, I inked the chipboard with a brown ink,
added a strip of washi tape across the top and again highlighted with pearls.

Having played girly for a while I also wanted to do
something a bit masculine.Here I have
used the Molossi barbed wire chipboard and their fabulous little stunt rider –
again I have coloured the chipboard with the American Crafts Chromatix markers

I hope this shows
that chipboard is not simply suitable for scrapbooking and off the page
projects but adds a perfect finishing touch or in fact starring element to a
card.

Sunday, 18 August 2013

Our next share is from Leanne using our chippy pieces, and it would be appear this month Leanne is very chippy happy with three layouts also to share:

This is what Leanne has to say

Close up of the Molossi gate which I used gesso on first then I

sprayed with a brown primary elements spray and cut in pieces as

the element behind my photo.

Some shares for you today using the Kaisercraft Sweet Romance collection, for
this mixed media layout. I used a stencil with modelling paste and sprayed a
couple of colours of primary elements sprays in the pink tones once it was
dried. I used the molossi gates as the element behind my photo with a lovely
heart doily, I used laces and collectables from kaisercraft and lovely prima
and green tara flowers to embellish the page.

My second share is from the lovely Kaisercraft romance collection as well,
I used the prima Lyric paper as the background then cut a floral piece of one of
the true romance papers and cut a lace boarder from pink cardstock. I used two
of the same photo's and cut them into circles and did a spray of flowers using
flourish with a bling pearls, collectables, green tara flowers, prima and dlish
flowers and a smaller spray of flowers with the heart doilie. My Molossi piece
was the cherish title to my page.

Close up of the Molossi cherish title which I primed in gesso then painted with
Tim Holtz distress paint spun sugar, I then used a brown Gelato around the edges
to give a slight distressed look to the title.

Here is another share using more wonderful Molossi chipboard, I used the Molossi
frame as an element behind my photo's I left it plain to go in with the earthy
tones of the paper which I don't usually do, but I loved the rawness with the
papers. I used the new Kaisercraft Basecoat papers 2, Bo- Bunny and 7 Dots as
well with some lovely Green Tara flowers, Prima and Manor House as well.

Afternoon one and all we are so lucky to have three special shares today:

The first is

“Beach Boys”

By Joanne Baker

Living in Queensland there is always opportunity to use
beach or ocean related chipboard, so I was excited to receive this fabulous
anchor and chain from Molossi in my pack for August.Despite being winter, my son and his mate hit
the beach in early July for a day in the sun, sand and water.The outside temp was a pleasant 23 degrees
and the water temp was not far off at 20 degrees.

Firstly I decide to put a pattern onto my anchor using a
Crafter’s Workshop template and Sakura Gelly roll pens to give the chicken wire
pattern.I coloured the chain in a
silver Gelly Roll pen and then added dimensional magic over the entire piece to
give it a gloss and to bring out the glitter in these pens.I think the chain especially looks much more
metal like with this treatment.

Putting this centre piece for my layout aside to dry I
started on the remainder of the layout.I pulled out a piece of Kraft coloured card
and randomly spritzed it with Turquoise and Pale green glimmermists, trying to
pull out the colours in the water on the photographs – again I set this sheet
aside to dry.

Next I printed my photographs in the various sizes I wanted
to fit with the layout design and distressed the edges of the main photograph
with a simple nail file to make it stand out a little from the others.I wanted the lifesaver’s blackboard on the
layout but did not have room for a whole photo so I trimmed it from a
photograph and added it to the white space in my focus photo – pop dotting it
to the top right corner.

I printed my journaling into strips on kraft cardstock and
after slicing them into strips I ran them through the Cuttlebug in a woodgrain
embossing folder from Craft Concepts. – I think lightly inked over the top with
a brown ink to make it look like the journaling was printed onto wood.

The papers I have used come from a Kaisercraft range of
beach themed papers – one piece I trimmed down to 5” x 11.5” and then used a
Fiskars wave border punch on one edge – I then inked the edges of the whole
piece with brown ink.The smaller
strip is 1.5” x 11.5” andI simply
distressed both sides of before mounting it a ½ inch from the border punched
edge of the other piece of pattern.

I took some paper scraps in co-ordinating colours and pulled
out my trusty Cuttlebug and some Sizzie dies to create some handmade
embellishments to add to the layout – shells, starfish and even a little bucket
and spade give the feel of beach.I
rustled around in my stash and found a packet of tiny shells to add to the
embellishment cluster.

For the title block I found a scrap of paper which looked
like wooden planks – however it was black and white and I really wanted the
sandy colours so I ran it through the same woodgrain embossing folder as the
journaling strips and again added a brown ink over the top.Tear the edges to make it look like a plank
of wood washed up on the beach and ink the edges of the entire piece.Add some simple alpha stickers for your title
and a couple of those smaller starfish I die cut earlier and the title block
was complete.

I pulled some medical gauze and some teal cobweb ribbon from
my stash also and I was ready to put the layout together.

I started by placing the patterned paper block just inside
the left hand edge of the cardstock – now I added the photographs – some were
mounted flat to the card, others with foam mounting tape to raise them up.

I added the medical gauze beneath the focus photograph and
stretch it across the layout and then added the cobweb ribbon in snippets to
fill in gaps.Now came my centrepiece
embellishment of the Molossi chipboard anchoron the left of the layout – ensuring the top of the anchor overlapped
the photograph.Nowthe smaller die cuts and the shells were
sprinked around and glued into place.Lastly the journaling strips were adhered into place where spaces
allowed for them best.

Thanks for dropping by – with spring just around the corner
I’m sure everyone will have loads of water related photos they can use this
wonderful anchor for in their upcoming layouts.